Despite the Germans’ superb battlefield leadership, their technical prowess, their mighty Tigers and Panthers, a failure of logistics at critical moments in the war proved their downfall: at the gates of Moscow, in North Africa, at Stalingrad, and in...Loe edasi...
The training, uniform, equipment, and experience of the fighting men who crewed German assault guns, tank destroyers and self-propeled artillery....Loe edasi...
The Eastern Front was where the war against Nazi Germany was lost and won. More people died there in the battles and destruction than all the other theatres put together. From the Arctic snows of Finland to the vast steppes of the Ukraine, the fighti...Loe edasi...
On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and tak...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated introduction to the role, and experience, of the Panzer crewman.The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding slaughter of the trenches of World War I. Armored vehicles, close-air su...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated survey of the German infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The German Army was all-conquering until late 1941 when, only a few miles short of Moscow, it ran out of steam. Maniacal defense, the Russian winter and exhaust...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II. A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its ally’s treacherous o...Loe edasi...
Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theater of the conflict. That is why this wide-ranging, highly illu...Loe edasi...
Its rare for a book to capture your attention from the very first sentence, but kudos to the authors of First Canadian Army for doing just that... I, too, feel that Canadas contributions to victory in both world wars have unfortu...Loe edasi...
The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion of the empire after the Punic Wars saw the Roman Republic become the dominant force in the Mediterranean as it first took Carthaginian territories in Gau...Loe edasi...
A detailed narrative of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945.The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in N...Loe edasi...
The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there’s only one way to take and hold ground and that’s with riflemen – the ‘poor bloody infantry’. Highl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: J H Haynes & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781785217203)
British soldiers, with their old-fashioned helmets, spring-powered PIAT anti-tank guns and veneration of heroic defeats, may have lost the propaganda war &; to be fair, the cut of a British Army battledress blouse probably did that on Day One &am...Loe edasi...
A pictorial history of the decisive role played by Canada in the final year of World War II. After Dunkirk, as the tattered remnants of Britains best troops returned home without their heavy weapons, Canadian troops mov...Loe edasi...
It is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies – that Soviet guns wore down German forces on the Eastern Front, negating their superior tactics and fighting ability, and that the accuracy and intensity of the British and American a...Loe edasi...
On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was tran...Loe edasi...
The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the America...Loe edasi...
